Marked
Seekers this message is about the Mark and Judgment of the people of all nations. We are all in one category of sheep or goats. The Lord knows his sheep and he knows the goats and he will separate them in the end.
1 Peter 4 verse 17: For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God, and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Ezekiel 9 verse 1-6 Read
verse 4: and the Lord said unto him go through the midst of the city set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abomination that be done in the midst there of
verse 5: and to the others he said in mine hearing go ye after him through the city and smite, let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity.
verse 6: slay utterly old and young both maid and little children and woman but come not near any man upon whom is the mark, and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
Note that the judgement began first with the ancient of the house. (The ministry)
The apostle Peter is saying that judgement began with us the ministry of the New Testament Church (The Gospel). If we have not preached the truth judgement will begin with us!
Revelation 7 verse 1-9 Read
verse 3: Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
verse 4: and I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty four thousand of all the tribes of the Children of Israel. Twelve thousand of each of the tribes of Israel.
Read Amos 9 verse 9
For lo I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Note: The tribes of Israel were scattered long ago but not one grain shall be forgotten.
Ephesians 1 verse 1-13
verse 13: I whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise.
Matthew 25 verse 30: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another as a sheppard divided his sheep from the goats.
Matthew 7 verse 17: so you know every tree by the fruit that it bring forth.
Note: Fruit is separated by the fruit kind.
Read Revelation 13 verse 16-18:
verse 16: This is the beast antichrist. And he causeth all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads:
verse 17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark of the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
verse 18 Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: and his number is six hundred threescore and six. (666)
Note: The antichrist or beast will number his people. They will be marked.
Genesis 4 verse 15 and the Lord said unto him therefore whosoever slayeth Cain vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold, and the Lord set a mark upon Cain lest any finding him should kill him.
Psalm 37 verse 37: Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace.
Galatians 6 verse 17: From hence forth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Note: Paul was saying he had been a slave to sin, but he had been purchased by Christ, and his new liberty consisted in his being the slave of Christ. In the old testament when a slave was bought he received the mark or stigmata of his new master.
2 Corinthians 11 verse 21-33
Five times received forty stripes save on. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck.
Note: Seekers in the end we must know the truth for all will be marked sheep or goats. Which mark will you have????
